| 1. The barometric reading was 29.437 on Monday. On Tuesday it was 30.231. What was the amount of increase? | |
| a) | 59.668 | b) | .794 | c) | 1.794 |
| 2. Before a trip a cars odometer read 23,465.2 miles. What was the reading after the car was driven 223.8 miles? | |
| a) | 23,231.4 | b) | 23,679.0 | c) | 23,689.0 |
| 3. The balance in Sarah s checking account was $523.46. How much did she have left after she wrote checks for $17.87 and $18.65 | |
| a) | $486.94 | b) | $36.52 | c) | $559.98 |
| 4. Mrs. Arndt takes a round-trip flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco that costs $138.00. Her sister takes a bus there for $48.85 and returns by train for 63.00. How much more money does Mrs. Arndt spend? | |
| a) | $26.15 | b) | $118.85 | c) | $249.85 |
| 5. If you have 43 yards of fabric that cost $128.57 how much did you pay for each yard? | |
| a) | $5528.51 | b) | $171.57 | c) | $2.99 |
| 6. If pineapples sell for .39 cents a pound. How much would a pineapple that weighs 3.41 pounds cost? | |
| a) | $1.33 | b) | $8.74 | c) | $1.82 |
| 7. If a 48-ounce box of detergent costs $1.20. What is the cost per ounce? | |
| a) | 57.6 cents | b) | 2.5 cents | c) | .25 cents |
| 8. A jet plant cost 22.4 million. An airline company has ordered 18 new jets. What is the total cost of all the jets? | |
| a) | $224. Million | b) | $124.44 Million | c) | $403.2 million |
| 9. Land is valued at $16.67 per square foot. How much are 2 lots worth that mesure 427.6 square feet and 572.4 square feet? | |
| a) | $16,670 | b) | $7128.0 | c) | $9541.9 |
| 10. Luis bought a shirt for $12.50 and a tie for $5.00 to find the tax he multiplied the total by 0.06. How much did he spend altogether. | |
| a) | $17.50 | b) | $1.05 | c) | $18.55 |
| 11. A store has a stock of 2,240 records that cost $4.95 each. What is the stores inventory worth? | |
| a) | $11,088 | b) | $42.25 | c) | $452.52 |
| 12. Many people travel at 90 kilometers per hour on the West German highways. If one kilometer equals 0.62 miles, How many miles per hour are they driving? | |
| a) | 15.2 | b) | 55.80 | c) | 145.16 |
| 13. Pollution increased 0.034 parts per million over an earlier figure of 0.186 parts per million. What is the newer pollution count per million? | |
| a) | .22 | b) | 0.53 | c) | 1.20 |
| 14. Each of the 96 students who buy lunch in the school cafeteria must receive 4 ounces of vegetables daily. How many 32 ounce cans of vegetables are used each day? | |
| a) | 2.4 cans | b) | 100.0 cans | c) | 12 cans |
| 15. A grocery bill amounted to $43.31. The customer had cupons worth $2.35. The sales tax was $0.86. How much did the customer pay in all? | |
| a) | $40.96 | b) | $45.66 | c) | $41.82 |
| 16. How many monthly payments of 199.49 are needed to pay off a loan of $4,787.76 | |
| a) | 24 | b) | 95.5 | c) | 4588.27 |
| 17. At a home demonstratioon party, 9 guests put in orders for products. They orders totaled $96.30. What was the average amount of the orders? | |
| a) | $86.67 | b) | $21.18 | c) | $10.70 |
| 18. A box of disposable diapers comes with a coupon for 2 free diapers and cost $3.24. If there are 12 diapers in each box how much does each diaper cost? | |
| a) | 0.27 cents each | b) | $1.27 each | c) | 0.33 cents each |
| 19. How much does Miranda earn in a week if she works 37.5 hours at 7.36 an hour? | |
| a) | $276.00 | b) | $370.00 | c) | $44.86 |
| 20. How much is an electric bill if 197 kilowatt hours were used in one apartment and 189 kilowatt hours were used in another apartment? The cost of the electric power is $0.059 per kilowatt hour. | |
| a) | $22.77 | b) | $65.42 | c) | $152.85 |
| 21. A fund raising group collected $696.50. It donated half the money to a scholarship fund and half to the library. How many books did the donation buy if each book cost $9.95? | |
| a) | 35 books | b) | 34.63 books | c) | 348.25 books |
| 22. What is the hourly pay of a factory worker who earns $313.60 for a 40-hour week? To find the hourly pay, divide the weekly earnings by 40-hours. | |
| a) | $7.84 per hour | b) | $12.75 per hour | c) | $5.35 per hour |
| 23. Molly uses 23.8 inches of ribbon on each package that she wraps. If she has used 404.6 inches of ribbon, How many packages has she wrapped? | |
| a) | 9629 packages | b) | 57 packages | c) | 17 packages |
| 24. Scientists used sound to measure the depths of three oceans. Sound travels through water at a speed of 1.5 kilometers per second. If it takes 3.8 seconds for a sound to reach the ocean bottom, How many Kilometers deep is the ocean? | |
| a) | 5.7 | b) | 3.16 | c) | 0.39 |
| 25. A truck that weighs 8,000 pounds can pull a load 7.8 times its own weight. How heavy a load can it pull? | |
| a) | 102,564 pounds | b) | 9,757 pounds | c) | 62,400 pounds |